One-month-old baby stolen from Juba's Custom Market. (Photo: File).

A family in Juba is appealing to the public to help locate the whereabouts of a baby girl stolen by a woman at a saloon.

The incident happened at the Custom market in Juba at around 10 am on Wednesday, December 21, 2022

The suspected culprit who reportedly lives in Muniki residential area in Juba is identified as Mammy – a giant woman who has bleached.

She had called Winnie Naphtali – mother of the missing children to accompany her to a nearby saloon at a Custom market in Juba.

Winnie then took her children along upon the request of an unfamiliar family friend.

Unfortunately, Mammy disappeared with the two kids – 4-year-old Kiden Naphtali and one-month-old Gloria Naphtali, in the morning of yesterday.

The devastated family, however, says they found one of the kids abandoned at a shop in Custom Market this morning.

“Yesterday [Wednesday] she [Winnie Naphtali] said she is going to the saloon, but there is this friend of her who usually come here home] and has requested her to go to the saloon to make her hair together with the child of four years and that of one and half month and she went,” said John Musa, one of the family members.

“According to her [Winnie Naphtali], when she reached saloon, she found her friend [Mammy] who said let her [Winnie Naphtali] hair be plaited here and give me the baby,

“She took the baby and later called the other child of four years to sit with her in front of the saloon. After finishing plaiting her hair, she [Winnie Naphtali], thought of the children. When she came out the children were not there, and the woman was not there.”

For her part, Charity Edia Augustine, the maternal Aunt to the missing child, is appealing to well-wishers and border police to help trace the suspect.

“We just need help, at least we should get the kid back,” Edia, another relative, told Eye Radio Thursday morning.

“We are really stranded. That is why we were not able to reach the borders, to the airport [to] people who are working there to help us where necessary. That is why we decided to come and seek help from here [Eye Radio].”

According to the family, the incident has been reported and a case has been opened at a Police Station in Jebel.